Word: moles
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...firm that managed rubber plantations): "Leaning forward and putting out my tongue I licked the brass rim of one of the portholes, in order to realize the ship with all my senses. Then I curled up in a corner of the fitted seat and felt like a mole, or some other perfectly happy blind animal, burrowing deeper and deeper, coming at last to its true home." In At Sea, a boy watches his mother exhausted by the disease that will kill her (Welch's mother died when he was eleven): "He was overcome with the beauty and sadness...
...fought Alexander the Great's predecessors. The first clue was the bronze head he found when he entered the corridor. It had been broken off a statue and hidden in a carved hole, under a pile of stones. The sculpture is eerily lifelike, even down to a small mole on the left cheek. And then there are the name tags: a series of carved dots on the handles of a vial and on a small pitcher are coded messages claiming the items belong to the King. "The Thracians believed in resurrection, but the rebirth was as a spirit...
Rosenblum’s attempt to find and analyze the best chocolate even takes him south of the border. In Mexico, he watches as “mole mama” Martina Tlacoxolat makes mole, a thick chili-and-chocolate sauce that garnishes a traditional chicken dish. Just as Europeans debate over whether the best chocolate is made in France, Belgium, or Switzerland, Mexicans argue over which region has the best mole poblano, with Puebla and Oaxaca the primary contenders...
...perhaps the most pressing issue for Rosenblum is not how chocolate came to Europe, which company prepares it better, or where to get the best mole. It is how cacao is grown and the way the chocolate market functions from cacao pod to couverture. To answer this question, Rosenblum travels to the most common sources of cacao—including Venezuela and what he calls West Africa’s “chocolate coast...
There are five options on the specials menu, and it’s hard to go wrong with meat or vegetables when they’re dripping with melted cheese and spices and encased in a batter-fried poblano pepper. The chiles rellenos de pollo mole ($13.95) is where chocolate puts in an appearance. (Quick tutorial for those who haven’t had mole: it’s a sauce made with chocolate that gives the dish a smokily sweet undertaste—and like cilantro, you either love it or hate it.) The verdict—well...